HOW DO I GO ABOUT FINDING RECORDS

• Try and find the record for the item you have been assigned
  • If you can't find the exact record, the find one that is close and MODIFY the MARC record to correspond to the information you have been given
• If you can't find a MARC record for the title you have been assigned then find a MARC record for the TYPE of item you have been assigned.
  • If you have been assigned a streaming audio book or a kit -- find a MARC record for a streaming book or a kit and use it as a model. From your background, apply the rules that you have learned to the new assignment from the information that you have in front of you to the MARC record you are constructing.
• Google is your friend. If you have specific question, try Google. There are lots of answers out there.

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World Cat

A union catalog of over 70,000+ libraries. This is a good place to start if you are stumped on cataloging an item. Since this union catalog has so many items in it, the chances are very high that you can find a record similar to the item you are trying to catalog or classify. <http://www.worldcat.org/>.

• Type in the title or the subject of an item.
• Select something from the result list that looks close to your item
• Select a library that holds a copy of the item
• Look at the MARC record of the item for suggested Dewey classification numbers, subject headings, summaries, etc.

Excellent sources for copy cataloging

Consult one of these sources to see if someone else has already cataloged the item for you.

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• Access Pennsylvania.http://205.247.101.11/search~S1
  • MARC records hold a lot of school records which may include education-specific information
  • MARC subfields indicated with |
  • MARC subfield |a is not indicated; the subsequent subfields are identified
  • Can search by ISBN
    
    
• AMICUS. The Canadian National Catalog. http://amicus.collectionscanada.gc.ca/aaweb/aalogine.htm
  • Records from 1,300 Canadian libraries including Library and Archives Canada
  • You need to set up a free account before you can search.
  • Can search ISBN number
    
    
• Amazon(Yes, that Amazon) http://chopac.org/tools/
  • Any book title in Amazon will give you some form of a MARC record -- click on Amazon functions>Amazon to MARC conversions
  • Any movie in the Internet Movie Database will give you some form of a MARC record
  • As with any copy catalog source you have to compare the information in the MARC record to the item in your collection to make sure the copyright date, publisher, etc. are not from a different edition.

• Library of Congress (LC) Online Catalog.http://catalog.loc.gov/
  • Access to the MARC records of practically any item in the Library of Congress.
  • MARC record subfields identified with |
  • Can search by the ISBN number which is more likely to retrieve the record that matches the item
  • Usually the Dewey number is not shown (082)
  • Often the summary is not shown (520)
    
    
• Link+http://csul.iii.com/ > LINK+ is a union catalog of contributed holdings from participating libraries in California and Nevada.
  • Advanced search in multiple fields
  • subfields marked by |
  • can search by ISBN number
    
    
• MOBIUS: Linking Missouri's Librarieshttp://mobius.missouri.edu
  • Consortium of libraries in the state of Missouri. The membership includes 62 full members from colleges, universities, the Missouri State Library and 2 public libraries.
  • MARC records subfields identified by |
  • MARC records subfield |a is not identified.
    
    
• OhioLINK Library Catalog. http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/
  • "The Ohio Library and Information Network, OhioLINK, is a consortium of 88 Ohio college and university libraries, and the State Library of Ohio, that work together to provide Ohio students, faculty and researchers with the information they need for teaching and research."
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• Prospector- "unified catalog of twenty six academic, public and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming" - http://prospectorhome.coalliance.org
  
  
  • Excellent source for DVD and CD records
  • Over 27 million itmes
    
    
• SchoolCat. http://schoolcat.library.net/TLCScripts/interpac.dll?SearchForm&Directions=0&Config=270386&Branch=0
  • MARC records lengthy and include lots of information
  • MARC records subfields identified with a green $
  • Searching for information can be done by both author and title in a "combined search"

Importing from LC

• ABC's to Cataloging and Downloading Records from Library of Congress. Library Resource Managment System. http://lrms.com/Training/catalog/LC%20Download%20Guide.pdf

Common Problems

Here is a discussion of the most common problems students had in completing this assignment.
COMMENTS ON THE COPY CATALOGING ASSIGNMENT – WHEW.pdf